Contents; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introducing linguistics Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and John W. Schwieter; Part II. Sound: 2. Phonetics: sound articulation and acoustics Christine Shea and Sarah Olivia O'Neill; 3. Phonology: sound patterns and contrasts Joyce Bruhn de Garavito; Part III. Structure And Meaning: 4. Morphology: word structure Joyce Bruhn de Garavito; 5. Syntax: phrase and sentence structure Joyce Bruhn de Garavito; 6. Semantics: language and meaning Roumyana Slabakova; Part IV. Language Typologies And Change: 7. The classification of languages Asya Pereltsvaig; 8. Historical linguistics Laura Grestenberger; Part V. Language And Social Aspects: 9. Sociolinguistics: language in society Terry Nadasdi; 10. Pragmatics and discourse analysis Maite Taboada; 11. Writing systems Peter T. Daniels and John W. Schwieter; Part VI. Language Acquisition: 12. First language acquisition John W. Schwieter; 13. Second language acquisition John W. Schwieter; Part VII. Language, Cognition, And The Brain: 14. Psycholinguistics: language processing John W. Schwieter; 15. Neurolinguistics: language and the brain John W. Schwieter; Part VIII. Brief Chapters On Companion Website and in eBook: 16. Animal communication and language Con Slobodchikoff; 17. Computational linguistics Robert E. Mercer; 18. English varieties outside of North America Daniel Schreier.